living‚ through education and nursing intervention on their condition‚ empowering them to take a more significant role in their own care. It considers all additional factors to the actual medicinal treatment for the disease‚ providing a holistic approach. It is therefore imperative that the patient is given relevant health promotion advice in order to manage there own disease. Health promotion is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1986 as: “The process of enabling people to increase
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Diabetes can cause several serious health issues such as cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease. Health complications by diabetes are microvascular diseases‚ macrovascular disease‚ increased susceptibility to infections‚ diminish heal process‚ distress‚ anxiety and depression. It is very important to prevent and manage
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There exists an article regarding the legal protest rules of nurses‚ within the medical field. According to the Carolan‚ (2000) academic journal‚ Nurses that are bonded with unions have the legal ability to “walk off the job” when unfair work conditions are noted. The rule only applies if the nurses negotiation agreements‚ does not contain a clause that prohibits striking (Carolan‚ 2000). The workplace policy does not apply to the nurses that are not unionized. The Carolan (2000) academic journal
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parents are from Mexico‚ which is where I spent my summer vacation. During my travel in Mexico‚ I got to job shadow my uncle who is a surgeon. I was able to watch him do an appendectomy‚ which was very interesting. Nursing is a field that interests me‚ especially emergency care and dermatology. Entering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program
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seen by two psychiatrists and a mental welfare officer and sent to the KGV. Hospital. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia by both Dr. Amparo Diaz and Dr. Lillywhite and prescribed with anti psychotic medication and sleeping pills. Several weeks later after being discharged I was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder
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Nursing Considerations for Mr. J.’s Visit to the E.R. Mr. J. is an 84 year old man who was admitted to the hospital for assessment after a fall. His physical assessment indicated multiple contusions to the face and shoulder‚ an unkept appearance and possible malnourished state. While a CAT scan and x-ray showed no fractures or bleeding‚ the fact that the patient had head trauma was most alarming. Traumatic injury to the head could lead to a hemorrhagic stroke or cerebrovascular accident‚ could
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering
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Dorothy Orem Orem’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory description of category of theory is a set of broad concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships developed and assumptions or propositions created from nursing models or from other disciplines and projects of purposes that are required for care of by individual patient‚ family and community (Current Nursing‚2013). Orem ’s approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then
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Gathering data relative to the tentative hypothesis Evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected Arriving at the final diagnosis Nursing Process: a method of collecting and analyzing clinical information with the six main components 1. Assessment 2. Diagnosis 3. Outcome Identification 4. Planning 5. Implementation 6. Evaluation Nursing Diagnosis: clinical judgments used to evaluate the response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems First Level Priority Problems:
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What is nursing? What exactly does it mean to nurse a patient‚ and how has this definition changed over the past centuries? What does the discipline of nursing consist of? In this essay‚ I aim to attempt to answer these questions‚ along with the help of a myriad of nursing researchers whose studies have helped to broaden my perspective on what exactly it is that I now do for a living. I will be discussing the different types of nursing knowledge that assists us as nurses to care for patients and
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